Metagenomic analysis of the medicinal leech gut microbiota

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Maltz, Michele A ^a   Bomar, Lindsey ^a,c,d   Lapierre, Pascal ^a,c,d   Morrison, Hilary G ^b   McClure, Emily Ann ^a   Sogin, Mitchell L ^b   Graf, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Beneficial microbes; High throughput sequencing; Medicinal leech; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA EXTRACTION; ERYSPELOTHRIX; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; INTESTINE FLORA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PROTEUS; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899702186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00151     Document Type: Article

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